TONY FRATINI SAID:
[Arlen] Specter was under extreme pressure to connect the dots - hence the SBT.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
You're wrong if you think Arlen Specter (alone) came up with the Single-Bullet Theory. Quoting from "Reclaiming History":
"From the first moment that I heard that Specter had come up with the single-bullet theory, it made very little sense to me since the theory was so obvious that a child could author it.
Since [the members of the Warren Commission staff] all knew that the bullet, fired from Kennedy's right rear, had passed through soft tissue in Kennedy's body on a straight line, and that Connally was seated to the president's left front, the bullet, after emerging from Kennedy's body, would have had to go on and hit Connally for the simple reason it had nowhere else to go. How could it be that among many bright lawyers earnestly focusing their minds on this issue, only Specter saw it?
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When I asked [Norman Redlich on September 6, 2005] if, indeed, Arlen Specter was the sole author of the single-bullet theory, his exact words were, "No, we all came to this conclusion simultaneously." When I asked him whom he meant by "we," he said, "Arlen, myself, Howard Willens, David Belin, and Mel Eisenberg."
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I don't know about you folks, but I'm inclined to take what Redlich told me to the bank. My sense is that Redlich, who by almost all accounts worked harder on the case than anyone else, was a team player only interested in doing his job well.
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If I have done a disservice to Specter in what I have written above, I apologize to him. But I did give him an opportunity to respond to this issue [via a letter sent to Specter on June 24, 2005], and he declined." -- Vincent Bugliosi; Pages 302-304 of "Reclaiming History" (Endnotes)
TONY FRATINI SAID:
The WC themselves put restraints - that is one bullet missed - thanks to Tague's wound. .... That damn Tague and his cheek wound, eh? - completely threw the case into turmoil.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
That's just not true, Tony. Not at all. James Tague's slight cheek wound did not throw the case into "turmoil". Maybe you should learn the basics of the case better. Read page 117 of the Warren Report (one of my favorite pages, along with page 195).
On page 117, the Warren Commission was fully acknowledging the very real possibility that the damage to the curbstone on Main Street (and hence, Tague's injury as well) was possibly caused by a fragment from the bullet that struck President Kennedy in the head. Here, read it.
TONY FRATINI SAID:
So, the onus is on you to prove that JFK's hit to his back was a through and through by CE399 - otherwise you have nothing - absolutely nothing.
DAVID VON PEIN SAID:
Every official investigative body has concluded that the SBT is correct. Why do you ignore them? Why? You can still work your make-believe conspiracy into the mix, via the make-believe Grassy Knoll gunman who fired the fatal head shot from the right-front.
So, why do all CT-Kooks insist on spitting on the absolutely true Single-Bullet Conclusion? CTers would look much less silly by merely accepting the obviousness of the SBT. I've often wondered why so many CTers refuse to accept it. Especially since it is THE only possible scenario in this case that makes any coherent sense at all (and is the only scenario that fits the actual evidence, to boot).
David Von Pein
August 2009
